The Samarqand–Cape Town Connection: Revisiting a 10th-Century Theological Text

The article compares Abū l-Layṯ as-Samarqandī’s Bahǧat al-ʿulūm (as edited by Juynboll in 1881) with two copies of the same text which have been circulating in Cape Town, as well as manuscript versions kept in the British Library.